This final week of August, we’re revisiting summery tales from the archives, like this one:
Ray Pirkle is a full-time host in upstate New York: he co-owns Hudson’s Rivertown Lodge and the cabin colony Camptown in Leeds, each of which have made a number of Remodelista appearances. Along with his enterprise companion, Kim Bucci, Ray runs the boutique resort group Ramshackle Properties and Ramshackle Studio, their inventive agency. The 2 should not solely designers however exhaustive testers of all the things that goes into their rooms.
As hoteliers, Ray and Kim assume continually about methods to consolation and delight their visitors. As enterprise folks, they think about the look and performance of each element, and in addition the wearability and worth. Some time again I talked to Ray at Rivertown about 9 Favourite Pure Supplies Designed to Take a Beating. At the moment, we’re resuming the dialogue at Camptown with a concentrate on summer time visitor quarters and the components—from in-your-face to invisible—that make them great.
Pictures by Lawrence Braun (@lwrncbrn), until famous, courtesy of Camptown.
1. Standing-Seam Metallic Roofs
The uniformity of the roofs enabled Ray and Kim to color their 26 cabins in a spread of colour combos, no two precisely alike (they used Benjamin Moore exterior paints matched to Farrow & Ball-inspired shades). “We appeared on the grounds and flowers and put collectively colour boards. We needed our selections to intensify the panorama.”
